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Issue: Batman #7
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #7 of 715 Issues (1363 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of August 13 in ad in Detective Comics #55.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dark Knight Archives #2 [unnamed variant] published April 1995
as Batman #7 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Wanted: Practical Jokers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Duke Micheal; The Joker [aka Henry Verne; aka I. Rekoj; aka Duke Micheal] (villain); Joker's gang (villains)
Synopsis: The Joker organizes a new gang by advertising for practical jokers in the newspaper, and when they show up, they touch objects used in major crimes, thereby implicating themselves...and forcing them to work for the Crime Prince of Crime!
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In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dark Knight Archives #2 [unnamed variant] published April 1995
as The Joker's Practical Jokes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Inks credits confirmed by Robinson and Roussos. Letter credit verified by Roussos.
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Here's Top Value!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): World's Finest Comics; Detective Comics
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Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Funnies
First Line: Inspector Clancy of headquarters, sir!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 5 gags.
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Lucky Bump

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sam Ware
First Line: "I'm sorry, son," the Army doctor said kindly.
Synopsis: Sam is denied entry into the Army due to his height, but while interrupting a bank robbery he takes a blow to the head. With the blow to the head, Sam sees an opportunity to get remeasured for Army service.
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Pages: 1
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The Trouble Trap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Kelly (Policeman); Linda Page; Henry Abbot (death); Carl Dwyer (Wayne's friend); Granda the Mystic (villain, a Swami, introduction); Hindu giants (villains); Joe (villain)
Synopsis: Batman must battle a swami who has hypnotized individuals, made records of conversations that he had with them, then later demands blackmail money or the records will be made public. However, one of the mystic's clients wants the secret of Batman's identity, thus Linda Page is kidnapped.
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In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dark Knight Archives #2 [unnamed variant] published April 1995
as The Trouble Trap [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Inks credits confirmed by Robinson and Roussos. Letter credit verified by Roussos.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chief Hot Foot
First Line: Vote for Chief Hot Foot
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Pages: 2
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 2
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Lewie
Character(s): Little Lewie
First Line: Give me the liniment, Lewis!
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Pages: 0.88
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 0.12
Disclose Notes: A pair of small ads.
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The North Woods Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Nora Powell (society lady); Matthew Powell (Nora's father, lumber company owner, death); Jack Clayton (Matthew's adopted son, ex-con); Woody Joe (villain, lumberjack, death); Asher (villain, lumber company competitor, introduction)
Synopsis: Nora Powell heads with Bruce Wayne to the big woods to help run a logging operation after her Uncle is murdered, but is puzzled when her partner wants her to sell out to their competition.
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In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dark Knight Archives #2 [unnamed variant] published April 1995
as The North Woods Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Inks credits confirmed by Robinson and Roussos. Letter credit verified by Roussos.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rollin' Stone
First Line: I was never so insulted in my life...
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Pages: 2
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Star Act

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Phineas Q. Throttle; Alfred; Queenie (seal); Nitro Ned
First Line: The ancient conveyance that had once, many years ago, been a...
Synopsis: Phineas is carjacked and his nephew, Alfred, finds a way to get the attention of policeman to help capture the carjacker.
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Pages: 1
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The People vs. the Batman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Horatio Delmar (villain, racket leader, introduction, death); Weasel Venner (villain, introduction, death); Freddie Hill (villain); Joe (villain); Al (villain)
Synopsis: Weasel Venner wants to make sure that a fellow criminal doesn't make public the fact that he is the head racketeer in Gotham City, so he arranges for someone to be set up for the murder of Horatio Delmar: that someone being Bruce Wayne!
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In Content Item: FlagBatman #242 published June 1972
as The People vs. the Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #2 published November 1979
as The People vs. the Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dark Knight Archives #2 [unnamed variant] published April 1995
as The People Vs. the Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman in the Forties #[nn] published May 2004
as The People vs. the Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Batman finally receives official police sanction in this story. Inks credits confirmed by Robinson and Roussos. Letter credit verified by Roussos.
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The "Big Six" Now Becomes the "Big Seven"

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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Red Ryder
First Line: I'll help you get a Daisy for your birthday...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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